Although Major League Baseball reportedly is mulling over multiple options to begin the 2020 regular season, there truthfully is no telling if and when the sport will begin.
One scenario has all 30 MLB teams playing at Spring Training facilities in Arizona and the season potentially beginning as soon as May. Another reported option is doing away with American and National Leagues, and using Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues for division realignment.
While those are the two plans that have been made public, Los Angeles Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten insisted discussions have involved a slew of scenarios. Like everyone else with ties to the sport, Kasten is eager to begin the regular season.
The void has left players, broadcasters and fans alike with a peculiar feeling of free time. For Dodgers Spanish-language broadcaster Jamie Jarrín, he can’t fathom an entire year passing without baseball, via Jorge Castillo of the L.A. Times:
“I hope we have some baseball this year,” Jarrín said. “I would go crazy without baseball for this year. And I don’t want the virus to stop my streak of 62 years in a row doing what I love to do, doing baseball. It’s fantastic.”
Jarrín signed a multi-year contract extension in September 2018 to take him through the 2020 season. “It seems like it was just yesterday that I was at the Coliseum in 1959 and started my work with the Dodgers, the time goes so fast,” he said at the time.
“I’m still enjoying it just as much as I did 60 years ago. I love what I do, and it’s a privilege for me to be able to do it.
Jarrín intended to scale back last year but wound up immersing himself into Dodgers baseball after the sudden passing of his wife Blanca during Spring Training.
In November of last year, Jarrín hosted the first annual Jaime & Blanca Jarrín Foundation Golf Classic. “This is really very special for me. It has a great meaning. I was married 65 years to my wife Blanca and she was really a very special lady. Very generous. I’m sure she’s very pleased with what is going on today,” he told DodgerBlue.com.
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